Monthly Archives: December 2014

Immigration as Political Theater

December 24, 2014. In a column that ran in the Chicago Tribune and more than a dozen other papers, Benjamin Powell, senior fellow of the Independent Institute and director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, argues that President Obama's executive action on immigration will have only small, and generally positive, effects on the economic and fiscal climate. Allowing illegal immigrants to work openly and legally allows them to use their skills in the jobs and industries where they can contribute the most [...]

2015-01-07T22:37:00-05:00December 24th, 2014|FPI in the News|
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Mayor de Blasio Can Make Lasting Change with Nonprofit Living Wages and Career Opportunities

December 16, 2014. In recent years, there have been increased conversations at both the City and State level to address growing wage inequality through the provision of a living wage. However, one important segment of the workforce historically has been left out of these conversations-- nonprofit employees. This op-ed by Jennifer Jones-Austin, CEO/Executive Director, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies and James Parrott, Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute describes how the Social Services Career Ladder project will address this wage inequality.

2020-11-13T14:52:59-05:00December 16th, 2014|Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Letters, State Budget, Tax & Budget|
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Wage Standards are Key to Reversing the Erosion of Wages and Living Standards in New York City

December 16, 2014. Despite considerable growth in the New York City economy over the past two decades, very little of that growth has trickled down to the average worker and his or her family, according to our new report. Wage standards like the minimum wage and the living wage are critical in ensuring that there is a floor under the job market and that workers are adequately paid. Prevailing wage standards, however, are a key means to ensure that skilled labor provides a path into [...]

2020-11-13T14:58:52-05:00December 16th, 2014|Economic Outlook, Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Press Releases, Reports, Briefs and Presentations|
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NY Economy Could Benefit from Obama’s New Immigration Order

December 14, 2014. Dan Janison, in a Newsday column, cites FPI's estimate that the president's executive order would be good for the New York economy. The Fiscal Policy Institute estimates that out of a total 873,000 people who are undocumented in New York, 258,000 are "potentially eligible" for deferred action under Obama's new executive order, unveiled last month. ....For his part, David Dyssegard Kallick of the Fiscal Policy Institute said of immigrants affected: "If they can act more freely in the economy, it is going [...]

2014-12-14T20:54:10-05:00December 14th, 2014|FPI in the News|
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The Shale Tipping Point: The Relationship of Shale Drilling to Crime, Traffic Fatalities, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Rents in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio

December 14, 2014. A report completed by a research team of the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative found a clear relationship between the density of shale well drilling activity and increases in crime, rents, traffic fatalities and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). These key “quality of life” issues had been identified in prior work by the Collaborative and in the work of others as having a potential relationship with intensive extractive industry “booms.” To examine this relationship, the Pennsylvania research team divided the counties in Pennsylvania, Ohio, [...]

2020-11-13T15:06:55-05:00December 14th, 2014|Economic Trends & Policy, Healthcare, Press Releases, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy|
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42% of NYC residents don’t have enough income to cover the basic necessities of a Self-Sufficiency budget, according to a new report.

December 2, 2014. According to the new 2014 edition of the Self-Sufficiency Standard for NYC, released today by the Women’s Center for Education and Career Advancement at a forum at the New School, the cost of a basic family budget in New York City has increased by 45% since 2000 while the median earnings of adults increased by only 17% over the past 14 years. The report, Overlooked and Undercounted: the Struggle to Make Ends Meet in New York City, is an update and extension [...]

2020-11-13T14:53:00-05:00December 2nd, 2014|Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Must Read, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy|
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Immigrant Numbers Have Leveled Off

December 1, 2014. In a finding with important implications for President Obama's executive order on immigration, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports on a Pew Center study showing that the level of unauthorized immigration has been flat since 2009. David Dyssegaard Kallick, director of immigration research for the Fiscal Policy Institute, a New York nonprofit that examines the role of immigrants in New York state and beyond, said: "It adds up to what I think is now established as a pretty clear trend, if you can call [...]

2014-12-01T09:17:39-05:00December 1st, 2014|FPI in the News|
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